Åsmund Sveen
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| Intro | Poet | |
| Places | Norway | |
| was | Poet Writer | |
| Work field | Literature | |
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| Birth | 28 April 1910 | |
| Death | 31 January 1963 (aged 52 years) |
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Åsmund Sveen (28 April 1910 – 31 January 1963) was a Norwegian poet, novelist and literary critic. He was born in Elverum. Among his poetry collections are Andletet from 1932 and Eros syng from 1935. He published the novel Svartjord in 1937. In the legal purge in Norway after World War II Sveen was convicted to several years imprisonment.